St. Ignatius the God-Bearer icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:13 X 19

St. Ignatius the God-Bearer icon (2) Mounted on wood Sizes:13 X 19Orthodox icon of Saint Ignatius the God Bearer (Theophoros) (2). Commemorated December 20. The Hieromartyr Ignatius the God Bearer, was a disciple of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, as was also of St Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna (February 23). St Ignatius was the second bishop of Antioch, and successor to Bishop Euodius, Apostle of the Seventy. According to Tradition, when St Ignatius was a little boy, Jesus held him and said:

his wife was called Theopiste

in a crypt he had prepared for himself

the humane expressions and the tones of the mosaic

but only a deaf and dumb idol and that he smashed it so the people would no longer worship a false God

He gave the girl's sister the penance of not receiving Holy Communion for a whole year

Thanks to this miracle from the Archangel the monk survived and descending to the courtyard buried the bodies of his fellow brotherhood

a fanatic pagan

cleaving to their faith

teach me what I should do

St Augustine wrote many works devoted to combating the Donatist

Orthodox icon of Saint Andrew Archbishop of Crete

aint Amphilochius toiled hard in the field of Christ